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Having attended three Los Angeles Dodger exhibition games over spring break, I can honestly report that the replacement games were a on a similar level to Double-A (minor league) baseball...
...part of any contact sport, and the injury is certainly not new to the N.F.L. According to the league commissioner's office, the rate of player concussions -- one every 3.5 games -- has been unchanged since 1989, the first year statistics were kept. In 1979 Cowboys quarterback Roger ("the Dodger") Staubach retired after four concussions in one season, and Jets receiver Al Toon hung up his cleats in 1992 after 10 career concussions. N.F.L. players even have their own concussion-related argot. Mild blows are known as dingers or bell ringers (because players usually have a ringing in their ears...
When it came to 1987, I picked the underdog-slash-Mets vanquisher--and though I was too nervous to watch Kirk Gibson (and hence missed his titanic blow during a fidgety channel-change), the memory lingers with all the resonance of having been in Dodger Stadium myself...
...tickets, priced at up to $1,000, have almost sold out. The venue, Dodger Stadium, is being transformed from a ball field into a fancy theater with a neoclassical stage flanked by graceful columns -- which, like the promoter, come from Hungary. Behind that will be an instant park made from 30 truckloads of assorted greenery -- amid which two four-story-high waterfalls will come plashing down. Except during the performance. In deference to the three supertenors who will make up the dream program -- Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti -- the cascades will be stilled. This Saturday's concert...
...Race. Deion Sanders thinks this a key reason--and I believe him. Despite the accomplishments of Doug Williams, Randall Cunningham and Warren Moon, a racist myth prevails: blacks aren't smart enough to be quarterbacks. They lack the "necessities," as Dodger executive Al Campaigns once put it, referring go black managers...